Once you have your lessons set up and your blog activity ready to go, your students need somewhere to do their work for you to grade. This is where Google Drive becomes very handy. If your school does not already use Google, don't fret. Google is free and very geared towards teachers, students and education in general. For this workshop day, you will create a screencast for your students and show them how to set up their Google drive accounts and how they will post their work to a shared folder between you and them. The process is very simple, but you will need to walk your students through the steps.
Set Up Sharing
Before you send your students to Google, you must do a little bit of leg work first. You have to create a folder for each student and share it with them. In order to do this, you will need their school email addresses. If they do not have a school email address, then you can help them create a Gmail account and create a share folder for them. Below, is a screencast of me setting up a student share folder. Follow these steps and create a share folder for your classes in Google Drive.
Creating Documents
Now that you have set up the share folders, you need to show the kids how to create documents in those shared folders. You must explain to the students that by using the share folders and Gogle Documents, their work is automatically saved and available for you to see as soon as they are done. They don't have to email you anything. Google drive makes it much easier for students to turn in papers. View the screencast to see how it works.
Once you have finished viewing the screen cast, create on of your own showing your students how to create documents to add to their share folder. Add the screencast to your website and publish it.
Sharing Made Easy!!
Once you have your lessons set up and your blog activity ready to go, your students need somewhere to do their work for you to grade. This is where Google Drive becomes very handy. If your school does not already use Google, don't fret. Google is free and very geared towards teachers, students and education in general. For this workshop day, you will create a screencast for your students and show them how to set up their Google drive accounts and how they will post their work to a shared folder between you and them. The process is very simple, but you will need to walk your students through the steps.Set Up Sharing
Before you send your students to Google, you must do a little bit of leg work first. You have to create a folder for each student and share it with them. In order to do this, you will need their school email addresses. If they do not have a school email address, then you can help them create a Gmail account and create a share folder for them. Below, is a screencast of me setting up a student share folder. Follow these steps and create a share folder for your classes in Google Drive.Creating Documents
Now that you have set up the share folders, you need to show the kids how to create documents in those shared folders. You must explain to the students that by using the share folders and Gogle Documents, their work is automatically saved and available for you to see as soon as they are done. They don't have to email you anything. Google drive makes it much easier for students to turn in papers. View the screencast to see how it works.Once you have finished viewing the screen cast, create on of your own showing your students how to create documents to add to their share folder. Add the screencast to your website and publish it.